No configuration in journald.conf was applied to the journald process in Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Solution Verified - Updated 2020-10-28T04:59:45+00:00 -

Issue

I changed some default configuration in /etc/systemd/journald.conf like SystemMaxUse.
The changed configuration was not applied to the systemd-journald process by restarting journald service or rebooting the system.

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